Author talk:John Young Stratton

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STRATTON, JOHN YOUNG.
Adm. pens. (age 20) at MAGDALENE, Oct. 24, 1848.
S. of the Rev. William, P.C. of Gressingham, near Hornby, Lancashire. School, Heversham.
Matric. Lent, 1849; B.A. 1853; M.A. 1884.
Ord. deacon (Manchester) 1853; priest, 1855.
R. of Ditton, Kent, 1856-1905.
Secretary of the Kent Friendly Society, and of the C.E. Mission Association for hop-pickers, for whom he worked indefatigably.
Died Mar. 30, 1905, at Maidstone.
(Crockford; The Times, Apr. 1, 1905.)

Death notice

• The Times (London, England), Saturday, Apr 01, 1905; pg. 1; Issue 37670. — Deaths.

STRATTON.—On the 30th March, at Maidstone Reverend John Young Stratton, of Ditton Place, aged 75, Rector of Ditton, near Aylesford, Kent. Funeral at Ditton Church, Monday, 3rd April, at 3.30.

Crockford's Clerical Directory

• 1898, p. 1299

STRATTON, John Young, Ditton-place, Larkfield, Kent—Magd. Coll. Cam. B.A. 1853, M.A. 1883, 𝔭 1855 Man. R. of Ditton, Dio. Cant. 1856 (𝔓 , Earl of Aylesford; Gross Inc. from T.R.C. 452l., av. 315l, et 249l and Ho; Pop. 870) Sec. Kent Friendly S; Sec. of S. for Conveyance and Improved Lodging of Hop-pickers; Sec. C.E. Miss. Assoc. for Hop-pickers.

• 1885 p.1143 includes detail of publications

...Sermons, Essays, Papers, On the Social and Moral Condition of the Rural Poor, The Poor Law, Church Music, The Immigrant Hop-pickers of Kent, Suggestions for Legislation relating to Friendly Societies, and for a System of Insurance for the Wage-paid, by means of the Post Office (Ridgway) 1869; Farm Labourers, their Friendly Societies and the Poor Law, 1870; Insurance for Labourers, 1872; Method of improving the condition of the Labouring Classes, 1872; The Poor Laws, 1873; Licensed Nurses and Midwives and Relief to destitute Sick, 1873; Hops and Hop-pickers, S.P.C.K., 1883, etc.